How to Clear RAM data in C#

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Dear Sir,
I want to get clear data which is store in RAM,in c#
Please help me

Posted 24-Sep-13 2:49am

Niraj K Verma

Updated 4-Jul-19 23:22pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Sep-13 8:59am

Not clear. Do you mean deallocation (then Solution 1 is the answer), or do you want to clean up secret information?
—SA

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Stephen Hewison · Answer 1 · 2013-09-24T02:52:00

Solution 1

.Net uses an automated garbage collection process for freeing up RAM.

When an object is disposed or becomes out of context (Disassociated from any other object which is in context) then the garbage collector will remove it from RAM.

You can access the garbage collector object using the GC class.

The following is a good article about performance optimisation using garbage collection.

Garbage Collector Basics and Performance Hints[^]

Posted 24-Sep-13 2:52am

Stephen Hewison

Updated 24-Sep-13 4:29am

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Eduard Keilholz 24-Sep-13 8:56am

Either one of us didn't understand the question... ;)

CPallini 24-Sep-13 9:01am

At a glance, you did not.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Sep-13 8:59am

5ed.
—SA

Eduard Keilholz · Answer 2 · 2013-09-24T02:55:00

Solution 2

C# will manage memory usage for you. If you declare a string and give it a value :

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string helloText = "Hello there";

C# will allocate memory and store the data in ram for you. Reading the value of the string will result in reading the value from memory.

In C#, there is no way to access RAM directly.

Posted 24-Sep-13 2:55am

Eduard Keilholz

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 24-Sep-13 9:03am

I up-voted this by... 4. To be more precise, "Hello there" may be allocated, but also it may create a reference to the intern pool where this string is already found; same thing about deallocation. This is a very delicate peculiarity related to strings only. Perhaps you should have told about some other objects.
—SA